Provost Upholds U. of Denver's Handling of Professor Who Discussed Sex in Class

By Peter Schmidt

The University of Denver's provost has upheld a dean's decision
to discipline a professor for making sexual references in classroom
lectures. In doing so, he rejected a faculty panel's conclusion
that the dean had erred in failing to consider the academic
relevance of the professor's statements and instead letting
human-resources and diversity-office administrators decide they
amounted to sexual harassment.